Ladysmith News-Budget (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
822 issues from 1907 to 1922, published in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1905, a group of associates, among them George B. Goocher (1862-1910), the Iowa-born son of German immigrants, formed the Ladysmith Publishing Company. They issued the Ladysmith News, a weekly newspaper aimed at opposing local politics. The publishing company hired Albert D. Campbell as the new editor. Campbell was a newspaper editor from Minnesota known for his lively columns; to prepare readers for what he had planned for the News, his first issue read, “The Ladysmith News comes to the public with neither apology nor explanation.”
Ladysmith, WI is located in the northwest portion of the state and is the seat of Rusk County. Positioned near the mouth of the Flambeau River and in a heavily forested region of the state, Ladysmith was a popular point from which lumber was floated to mills at Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. Ladysmith was a “boomtown,” as the economy grew on the logging industry until the turn of the century and fell into decline around 1915 when much of the forestry had been harvested. After the decline of lumber, the town’s economy shifted to agriculture. The newspapers in Ladysmith reflected the “booming” economy; around 1905, the town had three operating papers, and a decade later, it had only two, despite a growing population.
The Ladysmith News changed titles a few times throughout its run, and it eventually merged with a competing paper the Weekly Budget. From 1905 to 1906, the paper was titled the Ladysmith News and Ingram News, likely an effort to…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Ladysmith, Wisconsin, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress